A 14-year-old boy stands charged with four counts of murder, accused of using a semiautomatic assault-style rifle to kill two students and two teachers this […]
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Forced to choose how to die, South Carolina inmate lets lawyer pick lethal injection
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A condemned inmate forced to choose how he’ll be put to death ended weeks of suspense by leaving the decision to his […]
UN-backed rights experts seek wider arms embargo and ‘impartial force’ deployed to war-torn Sudan
GENEVA — U.N.-backed human rights investigators on Friday urged the creation of an “independent and impartial force” to protect civilians in Sudan’s war, blaming both […]
Suspect charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a deputy in Houston
HOUSTON — A suspect has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Texas deputy constable who had stopped at a Houston intersection […]
Investigators will test DNA found on a wipe removed from a care home choking victim’s throat
The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office plans to test DNA from a hair found on a wipe that was pulled from the throat of a woman […]
South Carolina prison director says electric chair, firing squad and lethal injection ready to go
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s prisons director said Wednesday that state’s supply of a lethal injection drug is pure, its electric chair was tested a […]
Owners of Pulse nightclub, where 49 died in mass shooting, won’t be charged
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Orlando Police Department has closed its investigation into the former owners of the Pulse nightclub without filing any charges. Victims’ families […]
Utah mother and children’s book author Kouri Richins to stand trial in husband’s death, judge says
Kouri Richins, a Utah mother of three who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death and was later accused of […]
Karen Read now faces civil suit as well as murder charge in police officer boyfriend’s death
PLYMOUTH, Mass. — The family of the police officer boyfriend Karen Read is accused of killing by hitting him with her vehicle and leaving him […]
South Carolina Supreme Court to decide minimum time between executions
The South Carolina Supreme Court won’t allow another execution in the state until it determines a minimum amount of time between sending inmates to the […]